Pennlive.com - Pennsylvania was among five states across the county that accounted for nearly 50 percent of fraud cases related to skimming in 2023, according to data analytics firm FICO.

The company noted a 96 percent increase in card skimming in 2023 compared to the prior year, with more than 315,000 debit cards targeted.

Just last month police arrested a man and a teenager, accusing them placing credit card “skimmers” on self-checkout registers at Walmarts in York and Adams Counties.

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1/29/2025 - Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday Pennsylvanians will not have to absorb the state electric grid operator’s proposed rate hikes in coming years, thanks to a federal complaint he and other governors filed in December.

“If we had done nothing here … you would have seen historically high utility bills jacked up 30%,” Shapiro told reporters Wednesday morning.

PJM Interconnection, the company which manages the electricity grid in 13 states, had proposed a new rate structure that Shapiro said would cost electric consumers $21 billion through 2028 — or a few hundred dollars more per household each year.

But on Dec. 30, Shapiro and governors of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey and Illinois announced they had sued the operator. Weeks later, PJM agreed to a price cap and other changes, pending a federal regulatory committee’s review.